Why Yellowstone's Grizzlies Should Be Grateful for Wolves

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By Elizabeth Preston
Aug 10, 2013 4:01 AMNov 5, 2019 12:22 AM

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There's only one time a giant domino chain isn't fun: when you're a domino. Humans are great knockers-down of ecosystem domino chains, and sometimes we don't even know which species we've felled until we start propping things back up. When we knocked every last wolf out of Yellowstone National Park, for example, we didn't know how we were hitting bears at the other end of the chain.

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